Monetary Policy Statement June 12, 2023
At its meeting today, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 21 percent. The MPC noted that higher inflation out turns for April and…
Monetary Policy Statement
At its meeting held on 2nd March 2023, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to increase the policy rate by 300 basis points to 20 percent. During the last meeting…
Monetary Policy Statement October 10, 2022
At today’s meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to maintain the policy rate at 15 percent. The MPC noted the continued deceleration in economic activity as well as the…
Monetary Policy Statement
At today’s meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to maintain the policy rate at 15 percent. To cool the overheating economy and contain the current account deficit, the policy…
Monetary Policy Statement
At today’s meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to raise the policy rate by 125 basis points to 15 percent. In addition, as foreshadowed in the last monetary policy…
Monetary Policy Statement
1. At today’s meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to raise the policy rate by 150 basis points to 13.75 percent. This action, together with much needed fiscal consolidation,…
Monetary Policy Statement
At its last meeting on 8th March 2022, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) noted in its statement the significant uncertainty around the outlook for international commodity prices and global financial…
Monetary Policy Statement
At today’s meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to maintain the policy rate at 9.75 percent. This decision reflected the MPC’s view that the outlook for inflation has improved…
Monetary Policy Statement
At today’s meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to maintain the policy rate at 9.75 percent, in line with the forward guidance provided in the last monetary policy statement.…
Monetary Policy Statement December 14, 2021
At today’s meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to raise the policy rate by 100 basis points to 9.75 percent. The goal of this decision is to counter inflationary…
Monetary Policy Statement September 20, 2021
At its meeting on 20th September 2021, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to raise the policy rate by 25 basis points to 7.25 percent. Since its last meeting in…
Monetary Policy Statement
At its meeting on 28th May 2021, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to maintain the policy rate at 7 percent. Since its last meeting in March, the MPC was…
Monetary Policy Statement
At its meeting on 19th March 2021, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to maintain the policy rate at 7 percent. The MPC noted that since the last meeting in…
Monetary Policy Statement
1. At its meeting on 23rd November 2020, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to maintain the policy rate at 7 percent. The MPC noted that since the last meeting…
Announcement of Monetary Policy Statement
The Monetary Policy Committee of SBP will meet on Monday, November 23, 2020 at SBP Karachi to decide about Monetary Policy. Later on, SBP will issue the Monetary Policy Statement…
State Bank of Pakistan increases policy interest rate by 50bps to 10.75 percent
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has increased the policy interest rates by 50 bps to 10.75 percent effective April 01, 2019.According to Monetary Policy Statement issued by the…
CPI increases at 4.12% in July16
KARACHI: Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation stood at 4.1 per cent in July 2016 year-on-year (YoY), which is a 19-month high and higher than market expectations. Previous month in June…